He heard from Ibn Talḥah, Ibn al-Baṭir, Thābit ibn Bundār, and a number of others. Those who transmitted from him include Ibn al-Akhḍar, the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī, Shaykh al-Muwaffaq, ʿAlī ibn Rashīd, and others. The last person to receive an ijāzah from him was al-Rashīd ibn Maslamah.
Ibn al-Najjār (1) said, “He was righteous and devout, following the way of the salaf.”
He died in Shawwāl 562 AH, at the age of eighty-two.
I say: some of his higher chains of transmission have reached me.
297 – Masʿūd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Thaqafī al-Isfahānī*
The son of the chief, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd ibn ʿAbd Allāh; a long-lived and distinguished shaykh, the musnid of his age, known as Abū al-Faraj al-Thaqafī al-Isfahānī.
He was born in 462 AH.
He heard from his grandfather; Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Manda; Abū ʿĪsā ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād; al-Muṭahhir ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Buzānī; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Simsār; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭayyān; Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ghāzī; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar Tāna (2); Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rarā; Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm; Ghānim ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; and many others.